I mean, seriously, I have been so sedentary that I feel like I’ve been beat up. My body is sore. At least the weather is nice, so I can get some exercise in the garden.
Chineee flu free links!(for the most part)
Adios, Tom. You were a good dude.
Yeah, yeah, drugs fell out of my ass, but this is too good not to keep it going for a bit longer.
Turkey is a bad place to be if you’re a dissident.
Enough of that. It’s Saturday for gawds sake.
Trying to figure out ways to not drink every day during this shit show.
Failing.
Drink all the alcohol in the house? Then you won’t have anything left to drink.
I abstain until after 7:30 pm. Most days.
I feel like I exercise great self-restraint by waiting till 5.
Oh after that, I dive into a deep glass of bourbon.
*Looks down at 3 fingers of Buffalo Trace*
Cheers!
I make coffee occasionally for myself in the morning. I put booze in it. I don’t do it every day.
India time?
Masochist
Failing.
#metoo
I usually only day drink on weekends and vacations. This has turned into a sorta both. Slowing down some, at least. Maybe 4-5 Stellas a day.
A friend sent me this note about day drinking right now:
I was just talking to client and she said her home is like Vegas…They are losing money hand over fist, cocktails at any time of the day are acceptable and no one knows what day it is.
I believe that. Those folks are getting slammed by this house arrest stuff.
Prior to the ‘rona and the newest household addition I was lifting three days a week and running at least two. Now I’m lucky if I can squeeze in a few reps while I’m not being yelled at by a four year old or trying to hose down a baby who’s ass should be banned by the Geneva Convention. But booze, bless it, is always there for me. Hell, at least I mopped and managed to take a shower today. AND, I’m wearing pants. Well, shorts, but still.
Slainte!
I’m hoping the weather changes soon, I’ve only managed one bike ride in the past couple of weeks.
Bigmouth Billy Bass ruined that song for me forever.
“Don’t worry, be happy.”
The one’s Ive seen sang Take Me To The River.
Both exist. You’re harshing my mellow.
I would have been all over Tina Weymouth back in the day. Especially when she saucied it up in Tom Tom Club.
I’d forgotten about that, there was a period there in the 90s where you couldn’t watch late night cable without being pummeled with ads for that damn thing.
That’s no way to talk about David Byrne, most people ruin song they cover.
Memphis is a cover town: everyone sings the same songs and always has. For example, Call Me has an interesting cover of I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry, but I don’t like Al’s Funny How Time Slips Away (probably because I just want to hear Willie sing it).
Without reviving the cover debate, I will say Led Zeppelin’s covering When the Levee Breaks strikes me as respectful, and it certainly opened up millions of people to thinking about a certain time and place who would not done so otherwise.
A relative in Florida tells me the governor has closed the border to New Yorkers fleeing the plague, and that they’re turning them back at the border if they try to drive into the state. No idea if it’s true or not. I wouldn’t think so, but we’re living in stupid times, so who knows.
There’s a lot of states between Florida and New York. And a lot of roads leading into Florida.
Sorry to go OT so soon, but question for the hivemind. I’ve got a friend who’s had a rough past year (including a suicide attempt). Usually she responds back to texts/calls/e-mails on a regular basis. Last I’ve heard from her was the 17th (she usually does a big party for St. Patrick’s day, this year there were only a couple of people there). Should I let it go, stop by her place, or something else?
Does she have family or other friends, and have they had the same issue of ‘incommunicado’ ?
Her parents cut her off, I don’t have her sister’s number, and the only friend I’ve got contact info for is an ex-girlfriend.
Drop by with some chicken soup. “Oh, thought you might be sick, so I brought you some (((penicillin))).”
Yes – go check.
Stop by if she won’t respond to attempts to get in touch, I’d imagine the current circumstances aren’t very good for depressives. Only do that if y’all are pretty tight though.
That’s where my concern is. She also works in therapy, dealing with a large number of high risk people. Hence me trying to stay away to avoid exposing her (especially since I traveled recently).
If you go and are pretty deliberate (but casual) about staying a few yards back, and having only a short visit, I think that both reinforces the “just wanted to check” message, and also communicates that you understand and respect her risk/concern level.
Even though it might seem silly you could wear a mask and gloves if you’re concerned about the risk of transmission in either direction. If you combine those with keeping your distance and no hugging or anything the risk should be pretty low, maybe don’t go inside her place too if you want to carry it to an extreme.
Yeah, stop by. “I just wanted to check on you.”
I would check on her.
Get your ass over there.
Yeah, check up on her. Best wishes.
Can you call, and then follow up in person if you feel you need to?
Thanks all. I was worried I was being over concerned. I’ll reach out again tonight, and swing by her place with some sourdough waffles tomorrow.
Appreciate the feedback.
Call t̵h̵e̵ ̵c̵o̵p̵s̵ ̵f̵o̵r̵ ̵a̵ ̵w̵e̵l̵f̵a̵r̵e̵ ̵c̵h̵e̵c̵k̵ anyone that knows her.
I hope she’s ok
Please check, if you can.
I’m currently planning to go there tomorrow. If she gets upset with me, I’ve got several excuses at least (all of which will be baked goods, and me being a terrible man).
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Excellent. Good man.
Seconded.
Yet another study indicating that Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin are an effective treatment of ChiCom virus. I sure hope the study in NY is positive and we can wind this shit down.
But…but…there’s no control group, therefore the effectiveness isn’t proven.
Let’s hope this gets some attention.
If this doesn’t the New York study certainly will and they should get a good assessment of the effectiveness or lack thereof very soon.
I was unaware one was being done in NY. Do you know when results will be announced?
It started last week, Tuesday I believe. They should have some results end if next week.
The intensivist you may may have seen interviewed on tv saying the hospital scene in NY is a living hell was interviewed on Tucker Carlson last night, and he mentioned he feels safe working with covid patients because he is taking hydrochloroquine prophylactically. Meanwhile, the Dem Governor of Michigan is threatening to take any doc’s license who prescribes it, merely because Trump said something good about the drug. TDS is a far more debilitating disease than even the virus.
Woohoo!
*pours nice tall glass of aquarium cleaner*
You know what you do if someone can’t breath because of coronavirus?
You have to perform the Heineken maneuver.
Thank you…I’ll be here all quarantine. Don’t forget to tip your respiratory medicine expert.
“You have to perform the Heineken maneuver.”
But the local deli was out of Heineken yesterday. Does that mean I won’t make it?
It means you’ll be forced to drink good beer.
Amazon is offering $3 credits for no rush shipping. I see a number of single item orders in my future.
I had to order some casters for one of my office chairs. I thought about it but I need the chair working more than I need $3 in ebooks or music.
Wait, did I just say that?
Good castors are important.
I say this as a guy sitting in a chair where I’ve replaced the castors, legs, piston, upholstery, padding, and possibly the piston mount.
Castor beans are how you make ricin. You’re all confirmed terrorists.
We’re all on the same lists anyway.
OMWC gets on an extra one or two…
The plant is very pretty. Castor oil, when I was a kid, was punishment for playing sick to stay home from school. Here’s to ridiculing idiot millennials who think this is not true.
“Good castors”
Castors are French beaver so I assumed you were hunting more than just coyotes. French beaver are good too but you probably already know that.
Who are you and what have you done with Mo?
Mo got dizzy and fell and hit her head.
Not yet.
I am back on an anti-anxiety drug, though, so I may be less irritable than usual once it gets its teeth into me.
Are you still working on that novel?
*grooves out to Metal Dildo*
No, actually. I have ONE SCENE to fix and I…can’t for the life of me figure out how.
That said, my stress is through the roof and it’s low priority at the moment.
Add more cod and cunte.
You’re welcome. A quick hat-tip in the forward is all I ask.
*grooves out to Metal Dildo*
These euphemisms.
You know who else ordered house to house searches for people fleeing certain death?
Boston?
TOO SOON, INSENSITIVE ASSHOLE!
(P.S.: Boston Strong herpaderp!)
Herod?
They coulda just painted their jambs with lamb’s blood.
His opponents quickly condemned the action, saying that he is bypassing federal gun laws, including those providing for background checks of gun buyers. Foes are also concerned about the proliferation of 3-D-printed guns, which don’t have serial numbers, making it difficult for law-enforcement officers to track them should they be involved in a crime.
His opponents can go fuck themselves.
The comments are surprisingly not stupid.
Regan called it the “the coronavirus impeachment scam” while accusing Democrats of exaggerating the threat of the pandemic in order to damage Trump.
Hmm… I don’t think she’s off by much.
I got take-out at same brewpub I got take-out last night. They’re only open two days for take-out. Things went much smoother this time. One of the staff that they worked out a system last night which seems to be working. One of the managers hinted that they might do it again next weekend. If so, I’ll be there. I got a Greek lamb salad which was delicious. Two 16 oz cans of beer: A barrel aged Scotch ale which I’m enjoying now and a stout which I might save for another day.
Our brewery is doing $6 growler fills for the duration. I also heard today that they’re going to have sale to sell off the kegs next Saturday. Time to get the kegerator cleaned up.
That’s not bad.
Local tap house has $5/domestic $15/craft growler fills. They’re also one of the few doing refills of growlers (against the county health board recommendation).
Refills? Is there such a thing as a single-use growler?
Yes, if the government-who-knows-best says so.
Well, they’re generally called crowlers, and are 32 oz. cans. But yeah, the county has requested that breweries not refill growlers, and only sell new ones. Of all the things I need, more growlers are not among them.
Same here. I’m not sure I’ve ever refilled a growler at the same brewery I got it from.
I’ve got several that I’ve refilled at the same place (hell, I’ve got three from Fat Heads). But needing to purchase a new jug for every fill just rubs me the wrong way. Especially since I keep my growlers with sanitizer in them.
I have seen some places that on their own would only fill their own. Tired Hands in Ardmore, PA used to be one of those places. I have no idea if they still are.
Usually when I see places only filling their own growlers, the reason is regulatory.
DEG: Nationally, the only regulation is that the growler needs the Surgeon General warning printed on it somewhere. State by state, the rules change. The most restrictive I’ve ever found were in CA. If you have a brewery name on the growler, it can only be filled by that brewery. If they put a beer name on it, it can only be filled with that specific beer.
At least here, we can bring a random growler to a location (when we’re not under quarantine) and get it filled. And there are scofflaws filling growlers full of Lager for $5.
I was talking to the bartender at Maritime Pacific Brewing in Seattle back in 2005. He told me they would fill anything that was clean, had a secure lid, and had the fluid capacity marked on it. So of course I had him fill a Mountain Dew bottle for me.
I have a vague memory that NC had some California-like regulations. I remember several places that refused to fill growlers unless they were their own.
DEG: Not familiar with NC laws, but establishments can (and should be able to) make their own rules about what they’ll fill.
I’m still annoyed by the one place that asked me if I knew what my 64 oz. vacuum growler weighed empty. Especially since they had it before they put their pilsner into it (and charged me $20 for that fill).
but establishments can (and should be able to) make their own rules about what they’ll fill.
I agree.
I’m still annoyed by the one place that asked me if I knew what my 64 oz. vacuum growler weighed empty. Especially since they had it before they put their pilsner into it (and charged me $20 for that fill).
WTF?
I think I need another drink.
DEG:
There’s a reason I haven’t been back to that place, nor have I recommended it to people. One that I would recommend in the area is out of crowlers, and is now doing fills in 32 oz. Mason jars. I really didn’t need more of those in my house, so I left them off my run today.
When I do the health check on my friend tomorrow, I’ll probably stop there.
That isn’t what she said. Never change, The Blaze.
I love you, Spud, but I hate the Talking Heads.
I know how influential, visionary, blah, blah , blah…
Sorry.
Can I make it up to you with a little Whiskey River?
Or maybe we could just have a whiskey Down By the Riverside?
Thanks for being the go-to dude!
I like that Kinks song.
I’m not surprised.
You’re a well respected man.
Whenever I listen to the lyrics of that song, I’m reminded of Marc Antony’s monologue in Julius Caesar where he mock Brutus.
Let’s switch gears to my favorite version of “Whiskey in the Jar”.
Unfortunately, I can’t find a linkable version of my favorite local singer doing Whiskey in the Jar, so instead I present Alice.
This song got him a ticket back in the day.
I like that song.
That band that performs at some of Brauhaus Schmitz’s festivals does a fun version of it.
There’s a good chance that I’m in the background of one of Mossy’s early live albums. I know I’m on the live version of Johnny Socko’s live albums.
An interesting video on the real speech and Caesar’s funeral:
https://youtu.be/2-PYwEsTll0
TLDW, the plebs were pissed.
There’s a red under my bed…
Love that song.
Love.
One of my fav Kink’s songs
You’re not going crazy.
I was hoping for a quorum, but this is still cool. I remember blaring that song from a radio/cassette player as a kid. /grandpa
Hey hey, my favorite Kinks song.
Willie, yes. Kinks, no.
KDS is an ugly look spud, I can forgive the cream in carbonara contingency and even the fake libertarian Republicans around here but this anti Kinks bias is a bridge to far.
Davies should be buried in Westminster Abbey when he goes. Best lyricist ever…
We are all fake libertarians! Hihn isn’t here.
BULLY!
Why would you make me agree with The Hyperbole? I can’t even right now.
Every party in my ski bum days started with a T-Heads album so I have a soft spot in my heart a la lost youth. I have no idea what was playing at the end of the parties. And come on you have to like this.
Not really.
I can live with this one, though.
Talking heads is on my “don’t like ’em” list. However, they cleared up the mystery about what’s at the bottom of the ocean, so there’s that.
Agreed. I never got into them either.
Ya, that is a good one. I honestly don’t listen to them much. Extreme overload in the mid 80’s.
I like them quite a lot.
Then again, I seem to like male singers with terrible voices (Leonard Cohen, Perry Farrell, Geddy Lee etc.), so there’s that.
Heh me too
That “Stop Making Sense” album got played loud and often in my dorm.
Talking Heads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSuregWhlWk
Someone’s trying to copy CPRM’s gig.
My nose ran and I sneezed/coughed occasionally after cutting the grass today. Clearly, I caught the Corona.
*Throws a lime at RS*
/tosses a can of tonic water at Rebel Scum
/Tries the Heineken maneuver.
Go on.
Well, I am honestly not sure she is wrong.
“Yesterday I announced and today I reiterated: Anyone coming to Rhode Island in any way from New York must be quarantined,” the governor said. “By order. Will be enforced. Enforceable by law.”
Interesting idea. But RI and CT should also be quarantined from the rest of the country along with NY and CA.
Dammit, I’m extremely tempted to drive to Walla Walla and buy a bike for sale there. Free time burning a whole in my calendar. Probably three days total trip from here.
I would tell her to test me or get the fuck out of my way. This is still fucking America, goddammit.
Silicone Saturday knows what you did last summer.
http://archive.li/7Ou0h
#1 has crazy eyes.
There’s something about 4. Also, 10.
I thought #8 was Angela White, then I looked a bit closer and noticed the instagram link at the bottom of the picture. I felt like I was being baited and switched.
I just watched that Trish Regan clip. Didn’t seem to be anything very offensive. But, lord, it was painful watching. Just not very good. Reminds me why I don’t watch cable news anymore.
Yeah – I couldn’t stand her breathless style.
Also had a breathless style
More breathless style
Also more breathless style
Yesterday I had a throat tickle and now I have a slight cough.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c
Oh well. Plenty of beer left.
Derpy dies and receives his eternal reward, artist’s depiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
LOL. If/when my offspring have offspring, Grandpa will be singing this to them.
I have not met you.
FUCK OFF TULPA!
Great lyrics, Mo.
Nice knowin’ ya.
I was in the marching band in high school. We played at the football games. I got in trouble for playing this after the opposing team scored a touchdown late in the game, even though the band director gave us the sheet music for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-9wXQpzESo
My parents were in the stands looking for me; they weren’t sure if I was there. As soon as they heard that music, they said yep, he’s definitely here.
“The hate is boiling over, many in the liberal media using, and I mean using, coronavirus in an attempt to demonize and destroy the president,” she said in her commentary.
Regan called it the “the coronavirus impeachment scam” while accusing Democrats of exaggerating the threat of the pandemic in order to damage Trump.
I don’t see the problem. Also, would.
The patriarchy strikes again.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/concealed-carrier-kills-woman-who-opened-fire-on-customers-outside-tulsa-shopping-center/
Was it a gunfight for the last roll of to?
Regarding the virus, we shouldn’t worry unless FEMA gets involved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMn8GZIBPw
Gun-Rights Activist Releases Blueprints for Digital Guns
You can’t stop the signal.
Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
Mar 26
This is monstrous and people will die.
Quote Tweet
Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
Mar 26
Trump: “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes and they’ll have two ventilators. Now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'”
I am quite sure there is no more context to this quote.
People will die!!!! Eleventyone!!
MSNBC – Make Sure Nobody Blames China
I’ll be here all week.Try the waitress and tip the veal!
[hacking cough]
Well, since nobody else did; two thumbs up.
I would hazard a guess that some areas need more and some don’t. I will also guess that nobody’s gonna hand over any of their surplus.
My wife assures me that since Twitter is a window into the human soul, and is the most credible source next to God. Context is just a Trumptard talking point!
Twitter is the sludge at the bottom of the cesspit.
So… the window into the human soul?
The bowels of the human soul.
I hate previous me.
When I created the color template for gravis-armored primaris marines, I painted the individual fingers of the power glove a different color from the rest of the armor. It looks good, but now I have to do the same on all the other guys.
You officially have a new fan. GF finished reading Shadowboy and added the next three to her Amazon wishlist.
I’m glad she enjoyed the book.
Now I hate current me. I decided to paint the promethium hises on the flamers… with a method requiring two coats. They’re awkward enough to paint with one…
Well I got that done, but now the cables running parallel to the hoses look unpainted… Gaah! My own starndards compel me.
Krylon is awesome. That is all.
I worked on their rust-converting primer for years: huge mess and a dedicated tank because we couldn’t afford to clean it. Part of me just wanted to be out of the plant on the day each month that was scheduled.
Swine flu has made a comeback.
More than a fifth of Detroit’s police force is quarantined; two officers have died from coronavirus and at least 39 have tested positive, including the chief of police.
For the 2,200-person department, that has meant officers working doubles and swapping between units to fill patrols. And everyone has their temperature checked before they start work.
An increasing number of police departments around the country are watching their ranks get sick as the number of coronavirus cases explodes across the U.S. The growing tally raises questions about how laws can and should be enforced during , and about how departments will hold up as the virus spreads among those whose work puts them at increased risk of infection.
“I don’t think it’s too far to say that officers are scared out there,” said Sgt. Manny Ramirez, president of Fort Worth Police Officers Association.
Had to order this shirt from a buddy: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8561990-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-yellow-on-red?store_id=148568
This time last year, I was unconscious on a ventilator with a single digit survival chance. I went through multi-system organ failure, a code blue where my heart was stopped twice, and 1 month in the hospital with some bizarre hallucinations (a memorable one was where I was on a spaceship gameboard and forgot how to advance time… spoiler alert: time advanced anyway). The Sopranos episode where Tony gets septic shock is an eerie reenactment.
It was easier to wall myself off from the world, so I didn’t comment, but did read Glibs daily while recovering. It helped take my mind off of what was going on, even if just for a little while. I really appreciate that and this community. Bablylon Bee is funny but doesn’t come close to the humor here. I’m back on my feet today, pretty much fine, except for a giant scar covering my entire abdomen.
I spent today eating prime new york strips (yes multiple), steadily drinking assorted top shelf bourbon since noon, and spending time with my wife and children. It’s been a great day. I’d like to share in a celebratory drink with you all, but this post will have to do instead. *raises glass*
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I’m back on my feet today, pretty much fine, except for a giant scar covering my entire abdomen.
Hawt.
I am happy you made it through your health trouble.
I will get another beer and raise a glass to you.
Raising
*Prosit!*
Cheers, sir! To your health!
If ever we meet, the first several rounds will be on me.
/slainte
Thanks Neph. I’ve been jumping on the links late, but I’d be down for the Zoom games if you end up setting this up. Thanks for offering to get something like this going.
To your health! ?
Damn, glad you made it through that and are here with us still. Cheers (checks clock and it is 5 o’clock!)
Oh my goodness! It’s awesome you’re back on your feet again, spearing cow as it runs by. *toasts with bottled water*
See “talls cans” link down-thread
Happy to have you aboard!
Salut!
Thanks everyone, cheers!
I remember, SSD, and you told us some scary tales a year ago. Happy that all is well. Don’t you also have a new(er) little one as well? We need all the Glibs we can get.
Thanks Fourscore. That’s right, I have a 13 month old and a grand SSD finale due at the end of April. I’ve got a special bond with the 13 month since he was only 6 weeks at the time this all went down.
I’m glad you are feeling better.
As soon as I hit “post” I will be pouring a glass of rye and saluting towards Michigan. (right? Am I remembering your locale correctly?)
Thanks Mike. It’s VA, but I think we’ll be moving in a few years as VA inevitably moves closer towards being the New Jersey of the south.
Ah dang. Well, my poor memory along with my lack of a Glibs info database let me down. 😉 I’m pulling for you to be able to get out of VA.
Also, from here, saluting towards MI is nearly the same as saluting towards VA, so; PROST!
I’m back on my feet today, pretty much fine, except for a giant scar covering my entire abdomen.
I hear chicks dig that.
L’chaim!!!
My wife does, at least, and L’chaim!
Good to hear. Welcome back.
Oklahoma woman.
A woman was shot and killed at a Tulsa, Oklahoma shopping center Friday night after she opened fire on customers. While police are still investigating a possible motive and haven’t released the woman’s identify, the Tulsa World reports that the woman’s rampage was apparently stopped by a concealed carry holder before she was able to inflict any injuries.
“Video reportedly showed the woman was involved in an earlier altercation in the parking lot. The woman left the shopping center and returned about three minutes later, when she pulled a gun and opened fire, according to the news release.”
The concealed carry permit holder reportedly returned fire and was later questioned and released at the department’s detective division.
Who knows how bad this could have been had an armed citizen not been around to stop the shooter before she actually hit anyone? Sadly, because she didn’t actually kill or injure anyone, this story isn’t of nearly as much interest to the media as it would be otherwise, and this story will get virtually no national news coverage because there wasn’t enough carnage inflicted. The media would much rather talk about lives lost than lives saved.
“Local Woman Shot to Death in Tulsa Shopping Center by Armed Gunman”
Shooter may have used AR-15, experts say
A bit mean-spirited, but I laughed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KtyMcb86go
+1 Matt Berry
Mendacious or stupid?
A run to the drugstore for a prescription is still allowed, for obvious reasons. So is going the grocery store to stock up on food.
But how about a quick trip to the nearest gun shop for a new .38 and some ammo? Should that be allowed when we’re all being told to stay home?
Well, according to gun advocates — including, naturally, the National Rifle Association — it should be. They are pushing for shutdown order exemptions for gun shops, arguing that they provide an essential service during a pandemic.
That’s ludicrous. Unless you plan on shooting those little coronaviruses one by one, no, gun shops are not providing an essential service during a pandemic. They are profiting from the marketing of fear _ get armed now before the desperate hordes invade your neighborhood in search of toilet paper! …
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 2008 District of Columbia vs. Heller case that the Second Amendment protects the right of an individual to own a firearm in the home for self-protection. It was an atrocious decision that ran contrary to decades of jurisprudence, but as long as that’s the current standard, we’re stuck with it.
Why not both?
Not like they’d have any ammo in stock at this time.
Oh, that’s rich.
“It was an atrocious decision that ran contrary to decades of jurisprudence…”
Citation needed.
“that ran contrary to decades of jurisprudence”
You know what else ran contrary to decades of jurisprudence?
Brown vs. Board
Roe vs. Wade
Miranda vs. Arizona
I doubt the author realizes those, tho’.
What is atrocious is the idea that a person has no right to self defense.
“…an atrocious decision that ran contrary to decades of jurisprudence, ”
Ahhhh. No. It was that jurisprudence that was atrocious and also illegal. In other words crimes committed by the state.
The founders, all of them, were very clear that the Second Amendment protects the right of an individual to own and bear a firearm. That is what the amendment said and what all of the founders repeated over and over in subsequent writings.
Fucking gun grabbers are such lying shitweasels.
Forget it, Suthen–he’s an L.A. journo.
Neat
Pet Dogs in Ancient Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxlci1d2rOg
I wonder what the lives of dogs were in ancient Chi – uh, never mind.
So what are ya’ll empty nest married peeps making under 150K going to do with your $2400, buy a roll of TP?
I’m not married and don’t have kids, so don’t know how much I’m getting.
If you make under 75K, then $1200. Hope that gets you a whole role of TP in your area.
We’ve got about 20 rolls in the house right now.
Well, if you can hold out for 3 months, you can buy a 3 million dollar estate after selling those.
Hah! Piker, I have 36 double rolls. Premium Cottonelle.
We only have about 6 double rolls for 2 people.
Since my wife will only buy 2 or 3 brands, no matter what, the likelihood of us running out in the new future is above 100%.
Since the most likely cause of death in the first world has now changed from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer to lack of TP, it was nice knowing you all.
You buy the toilet paper and put it on the holder without her seeing what brand it is.
Abortion > cancer
Abortion > diabetes
60 rolls, bitches. The big fat Costco ones.
(What?!? We stocked up a week before the panic hit, as part of our semi-annual massive shopping spree for necessities at Costco . . . )
Lightweights. 76 rolls of Scotts in storage (spousal unit buys 20 every time they’re on sale), plus about 10 more in the bathrooms. Also ~100 cans of Progresso soup (ShopRite can-can sale FTW) purchased by yours truly to avoid spending $20/day on lunch in NYC. I should be able to retire a lot sooner now.
*targets location on Glibs TPTB SuperGPS*
But… it’s Scotts. That’s half a step up from the NYT.
That’s what I use. I can’t stand the cottony crap like Charmin that falls apart.
I’ve never had any issue with Charmin falling apart.
Sounds like a dietary issue.
Continue my budget gun collection? And use the rest for a house project. Or get the compact version instead, or both the compact and full size. I haven’t decided.
The PSA Dagger 9mm, if they’ll release the damn thing; that’s what.
Dad and I had the local news on at dinner, and one of the pieces was blatant propaganda younger people to panic over coronavirus, on the grounds that it could happen to you.
Barf.
Yep. You’ll notice no one is reporting ages of deaths anymore. 0-19 is still zero last time I checked.
If you’re under 75, you’re probably going to live through this. Doesn’t mean you won’t be reduced to poverty. We should feed Pooh Bear slowly into a woodchipper at any cost.
While I dont agree, there is a “mens rea” aspect to it. Did Pooh do it deliberately? Did some dumbfuck get infected at that lab, walk down the street and cough on a bat in the wet market? Or do dumbfucks eating bat soup cause the whole thing? Nobody really knows, or are gonna find out.
So….yeah, chunk him in a chipper.
Meanwhile…..TALL CANS!
They’ve closed the county parks. I’m now having a martini.
Wouldn’t it be a quarantini at this point?
/hides his beer from his locals
“quarantini ”
I like that, I’m stealing it.
Yes, good name. Served with a side of despair.
How dirty ?
Not original, but stolen from many online articles.
I prefer it with a side of homemade sourdough bread at this point.
/refers to previous threads
First world problems. I wanted to take the dog to a different park and walk. Just whining, not a real problem.
Gluteus Maximus (ancient Rome’s greatest undercover agent): Gimme a martinus.
Bartender: You mean martini?
G.M.: If I want more than one, I’ll ask, smart guy.
Crusty and Derpy go sailing; artist’s depiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8xhi7HN6s
Less dry humping than I imagined.
Aggghhhhh! How to bleach that image out of my mind?
If the boat owner harassed Crusty and Derpy of their boat they would be in violation of the Marine Mammals Act and subject to a Federal felony violation. A boat in the Monterey Harbor was sunk by a pod (covey? murder? pack?) of these video Crusty’s back in 2010.
[memories of barking sea lions in Monterrey]
Ork! Ork ork ork!
singing walrus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAVL61yeCYs
Just a little Photoshop work of one of my fave models — an attempt to make a “Rembrandt-style” portrait:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Rembrandt-treatment-scaled.jpg
Very nice.
That is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!
Thanks. During the ‘Shopping, the earring (image right side) disappeared, so a silly amount of time was spent bringing it back as a “ghost-in-the-shadows” kinda detail, like you see in some of Rembrandt’s stuff. PS’ing an image can really be a labour of love sometimes . . .
Art has no time limit. You done good.
Thanks, d00d!
Lovely. Would you mind showing the starting image? I used to have a chemical dark room and now working in color with modern software is just wonderous magic to me.
I really miss working in my chemical darkroom.
Ditto. And what kind of filter(s) did you use?
Several. Actually. I really might need to do a short article on this.
I can certainly do that, but I’m almost thinking it would be better as a short article (there were a number of steps).
Usually I’m pretty reactionay, but I miss the chemicals like I miss our old Royal typewriter.
Behold our trustworthy mainstream media:
Life In China Becoming More Recognizable After Coronavirus Breakout | TODAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iEGgPKFBU
[head desk]
I just suggested we feed Pooh Bear to the woodchippers. USA media next in line.
Plague news from my neck of the woods: I actually worked part of today. On my way I stopped at the Wmart to grab lime juice for cocktail hours and grabbed a few more things while there. Numerous elderly folks with full on masks and latex gloves. In a hurry and looking scared. Enraged me more about the overreaction to this. I did my job and then took the hour drive to the big city. On the way I noticed in my small community area nobody is staying at home. People out going on hikes. The four wheeler and side by side crowd was out in full force. The dirt bike guys were tearing it up. On the highway the overhead terror signs said “avoid unnecessary travel.” In the big city the traffic was about 1/4 what it usually is on a Saturday. I was going to the big city to buy a router that Home Depot had in stock since the closer one did not carry it. There was a line at the entrance. They were limiting capacity and sterilizing shopping carts. As dude let me in I asked what their max occupancy was. 150 he told me. There were numerous social distancing signs throughout the store. Creeped me out so I got my router and beat it the hell out of there back to where people are acting normal. Now I am home and I have never been called normal.
Had to get a grout sponge today at the local Home Despot here in Edmonton. The province has banned more than 50 people inside a store at once, so guess what I did for ten or fifteen minutes at -10 Celsius?
Well, in light of SSD’s confession, I’ll make one.
Spoiler: I’M FINE!!!
Monday, I thought I was having a heart attack. I was dizzy (dizzier than I have ever been), short of breath, weak, tired, left shoulder sore. Also, that dastardly family history; my aunt had her first CABGx2 when she was 48. So my husband bundled me off to the ER. Troponins were taken (amongst other things). NOTHING IS WRONG. So, now I have a hospital bill for being perfectly healthy.
Except for the benign positional vertigo. It ain’t benign because at some point, I’m going to fall over and bust my head open. It started maybe 2 years ago, I think? Maybe longer than that. Now they are out of control and I’m popping meclizine like lime Skittles. Dr. Google tells me there is no real cure. There is only mitigation.
There’s today’s whine.
I’m not whining. I’m sighing in irritation and rolling my eyes a lot.
It’s not coronavirus?
No. They were getting worse last year about the time I had my ulcer, which was one reason I got sent to the hospital. They’ve been getting worse over the last year, but Monday was the worst I’ve had.
“Monday, I thought I was having a heart attack.”
None of what you just said sounds like you were having a heart attack. Were you having chest pains?
Not for a man, no.
OK. You’re telling me that heart attacks are caused by different reasons depending on if you’re a man or woman? And the symptoms are different?
Not caused by different REASONS.
I’m saying it manifests differently in women, and sometimes wildly differently, even from woman to woman.
There is no circumstance that a fifty-year-old fat woman is going to walk into an ER, say, I’m dizzy and short of breath, that she’s going to be allowed to sit there. They get your ass on an EKG machine IMMEDIATELY.
Did they check your BP first?
Heart attacks present differently for women. Or you know, those who were born with vaginas.
I’m happy to hear you are fine.
I had some vertigo problems a while back after an ear infection. I never had ear infections as a kid. Right around age 30 was my first and only ear infection. It took a few years to clear out. Hopefully yours clears out too.
Fine as in no heart attack. Vertigo is not fine. I proofrad gud.
I don’t recall having any ear infection as a kid either. After having a couple of unpleasant ear infections as an adult in the US, I started to use Q-tips less frequently.
Sorry Mojo. Is it a panic attack? You’re under a tremendous amount of stress.
No. I know when I’m having a panic attack. The shortness of breath is different.
holy shit
Glad you weren’t having a heart attack. Not giving advice or criticizing, but you ever wonder if the other meds you are on might be causing this stuff? I tried to fix my brain through chemistry during a bout of depression after two divorces in three years. I finally decided the meds where fucking me up more and quite taking them. I just started getting up at four in the morning and working out with a run/walk mixed in the routine every other day and soon anxiety and depression left. That was in 2000. It has not came back yet. I am trying to get back to the workout but fail. Still get up at four though if I have not spent my night embarrassing myself here until the wee hours of the morning that is.
Meds, almost all of them have side effects, to some degree or other.
When I first was treated for high blood pressure, they put me on a medication that caused my BP to go to low and I had severe dizziness and disorientation from it.
Oh the anxiety meds made me feel way weird. I said fuck this shit and started lifting in the morning. All I need is another bout of depression and I would get back to it but the tequila and lime staves off depression.
It’s occurred to me, yes, and sometimes I think maybe that’s the problem.
OTOH, which is worse? Life without drugs but not dizzy, or life with the drugs, but dizzy?
I’ll take dizzy, thanks.
Check your BP. Low BP will most definitely cause dizziness. I know this from experience.
I happen to think that’s part of it, but when I go to the doc, it’s marginally high. Of course, the last time I posted my “through the roof” BP, Spud called me a piker.
Did that “no oral sex” diktat get overruled by a later president, or am I really lucky that Melanie wasn’t interested enough in me to convert me?
It took about 6 months of the membership screaming bloody murder and bishops saying, “Oh hell no I’m not doing that” before it got repealed.
My mother was furious (she told me years later when I asked about it because I thought it was an urban legend).
The problem with that dude really was that fucking book he wrote when he was way lower on the totem pole. It was published in 1969, disseminated widely in all corners of the globe, multiple copies in bishops’ offices, handed out like candy, and only 5 years ago got taken out of print and half-assedly discredited.
There are two schools of thought on the book that I have experienced: people who are decent people with no big stuff going on in their lives resent it or are afraid because of it or stressed out or whatever. People who are decent people but with serious sins in their pasts (my uncle and my husband, for starters) find comfort in it.
Unfortunately, they were handed out to people who did such things as swipe a pen from the bank. That and cold-blooded murder were treated as roughly equivalent.
Okay, I’mma stop because just thinking about that book pisses me off.
??? What book?
Sex in Zion?
Mojeaux linked this earlier:
http://stakepresident.blogspot.com/2011/05/oral-abstinence-key-to-happy-fulfilling.html
I’ve been trying to get myself off the meds (high blood pressure and high cholesterol ones) for a while. My doctor and I have differences of opinion on several things. He thinks I shouldn’t have been able to ride 60+ miles on a bicycle… even after I did it.
I should probably look for a new doctor.
My previous doctor, who left the practice for reasons I don’t know, told me once, “You’re too heavy. You have too much muscle mass to be normal according to BMI. So concentrate on getting your bodyfat down. The muscle mass is good, don’t lose it.”
My current doctor, actually a nurse practitioner, only said to me about my weight, “You’re trying to get your bodyfat down? Good!”
I’ll admit I’m overweight (even still after dropping weight). But damn it, I’ve already done it. You shouldn’t say I wouldn’t have been able to do something that I’ve already done. I’ve been floating at ~23% body fat this week.
Damn, I’m glad you ended up being fine Mo. Don’t spend a second regretting that “hospital bill for being perfectly healthy”.
Exclusive Look Inside New York and New Jersey Hospitals Battling Coronavirus
What is with the shortage of supplies? Do hospitals keep like a weeks worth? The shit aint like fresh oysters. You can keep masks and gloves forever.
I don’t get that either. There should be fucking warehouses of the stuff at all times.
The material the gloves are made of does break down with age.
Plus, like any other consumable supply, paying for more than you need is just going to make you go broke.
The occasional pandemic is inevitable. Obviously nobody planned for this one. Gloves are not expensive – I think the cost of them breaking down over (years, decades?) can be figured into their calculations. *just spitballing, obviously*
Yeah, all it takes is a “first in, first out” stock rotation and it’ll work. If peppers and grocery stores can figure it out, so can hospitals.
Depends, are we talking a priavtely owned an operated facility… or the VA/NHS?
I’ve read about, and agree with a theory about that; we’ve gotten so used to a Just-In-Time delivery system that there aren’t stockpiles of nearly anything anymore. Life in America (and most of the “Western” world) is so fucking luxurious that we all assume we can get anything we need in a couple days (if not couple minutes). Couple that with the fact that modern healthcare is so expensive and that unused inventory is money on the shelf, and here we are.
JIT happens.
LOL. It certainly does.
JIT is how any consultant can “save” you a few $million in inventory costs. It’s great until your stuff doesn’t arrive just in time, then you’re screwed. I’ve done many a risk assessment / disaster readiness plan where this was pointed out and ignored.
Statistical predictions are wonderful for saving money, until something unusual happens.
“Inventory is evil” — one of our previous CEOs used to tell us that constantly.
I imagine that hospitals work like most businesses. You have enough space to hold enough stuff to get through until the next delivery. Distributors keep enough space to keep enough stuff to make deliveries to all the customers. A spike in demand from one customer is manageable. A run on inventory at all suppliers isn’t manageable. A run on inventory at all distributors is totally unmanageable.
I do too, and I’m having a problem with that.
Hospitals are businesses. The alternative is too scary.
OK, I’ll modify my statement with something like “they aren’t planning right”.
Can any business plan for something it has never seen before?
With 20/20 hindsight, every part of the supply chain should have been ramping up once the news started flowing out of China at the start of the year. There has been a major failure to recognize the scope this pandemic has become.
This is complicated by the fucking media and the fucking government spreading panic among the general population. Panic buying and hording is fucking up the supply chain for just about everything.
There are many, many people that deserve blame here.
Lots of businesses have been similarly screwed after 911 grounded flights, hurricanes and snowstorms interrupt deliveries. They just decided to accept that risk.
There’s a National Strategic Stockpile that has things like masks and other. They drew down the stockpile for H1N1 and never refilled it. That was when the stockpile was being ran by…. the CDC.
Link?
I found one Lots of Trumps fault, lots of Governors pissed. Why don’t states have their own stockpile?
Some/most do? They’re already emptying it here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/face-masks-in-national-stockpile-have-not-been-substantially-replenished-since-2009/2020/03/10/57e57316-60c9-11ea-8baf-519cedb6ccd9_story.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_National_Stockpile
Lean and just in time have made inroads like everywhere else. Supply chain works until it doesn’t.
And hospital leaders LOVE lean et al. If I ever have to do another fucking kaisen I might lose it.
What if I call it a Kaban event instead?
Had an asynchronous, virtual drink with my mom. She also had a martini. Next week we will each have an old fashioned and talk on the phone.
When you make a sidecar, Ill be impressed.
I”l wait for the ‘Strip and Go Naked’.
12 beers, 1 can concentrate, 1 fifth vodka. Fun times ?
Did kids in your world make the awesome Wapatui?
If wapatui is naked Catholic School girls, then yes.
“This doesn’t taste like beer ..”
No, we had those, too.
Wapatui.
Oh, you mean Trash Can Punch.
If it was red color we called that stuff Artilllery Punch. Other colors were appropriately called by another service branch. I made Signal Corps Orange Drank
Oi! I went to Catholic school, so did my sister.
Fourscore – you should have seen the dreck they had to put together at my Ordnance Corps Dining In. Gah!
Ah memories of the one Saint Barbara’s Day ball I went to. The SGM and XO mixed it in a .50 ammo can and served it out of an arty shell casing of some sort. Every ingredient was provided a backstory. They made the newest LT be the first to try it.
I wonder how it became ‘Strip and Go Naked’. Did one have to pay royalties for calling it the much more mellifluous “Sip and Strip”?
She’s not a fan of brandy. It’s usually a martini, whiskey sour, Manhattan, or an old fashioned.
Your mother is obviously a cultured woman.
She’s agreed to stay in my brother’s condo until at least Easter. She’s playing cards every Wednesday with some other elderly women. She said, we’re isolating, just socializing with the same four people and we’re all healthy. It sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.
Me and my sister have been talking about our parents. My dad went to the American Legion one night, and my sister’s comment was, “Have you been there? It’s pretty much elder isolation.”
Really, that’s all it takes?
/hands Tulip a Satan’s Whiskers
Sugar freed the link
Ballad of a Hand
http://imgur.com/a/ZrFf8Ln
Thoughts?
I . . . don’t think you’re quite there yet, mang . . .
Abomination.
Ban this man.
Abomination.
*racks AK*
*slaps Sean and hands him an AR*
That pineapple is bad enough. No commie guns. It’s
ArmaliteAmerica’s Rifle for you.Guns don’t have politics. Don’t discriminate against guns!
Go for a Mosin, it is the most superior weapon of all time.
Hey! There is a safey on a Mosin…
It’s just next to impossible to operate, so no one bothers.
I have used the safety on a Mosin.
Oh. I am a bit of a nobody.
*bows respectfully*
/facing away. Pants down.
Ha! Nice work!
I laughed too. Very clever.
And you always seemed like a cool guy.
I used to think you were a decent human being.
I blame the isolation for this style of madness.
Well, it’s not ON the pizza. In quite, it’s the exact opposite, so I’d say you’ve created the perfect Glib pizza!
But you can have my slice. No, really…that’s OK.
Why would you do that?
GOOD TO SEE YE AGAIN. How you holdin’ up these days?
I love being lectured about materialism and wealth by zillionaires.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/28/woke-stupidity-is-spreading-as-fast-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic/
Fuck.
Sweet Meteor of Death can’t come fast enough.
Britney Spears is now a Marxist
Marxism is toxic.
I doubt Gal goes out for a meal without bringing along a very large man to keep fans at bay, so her personal borders likely begin at about a 3-foot radius around her.
Socialism is for the people, not the socialist.
You greedy plebes just aren’t satisfied living off the 5 star catered craft serives table, Gucci/Armani/Bulgari gift bags, and other free stuff you get every time you volunteer for something! You act like you won’t volunteer your time to serve society without getting paid! Why can’t you be more like your betters?
“Imagine no possessions…”
No.
Fuck you.
I always imagine Yoko Ono in penury not having the copyrights to John’s songs.
Oh man, that is the happiest dream I’ve heard in a long time, and I know someone who will appreciate it even more.
Julian Lennon?
This is, of course, the correct answer.
Ugh, ? . One of the worst set of lyrics of any popular song. They are so bad I would say they are evil .
Imagine if I had your possessions.
* racks slide on apocalypse rifle.
I hope there’s a reckoning with the purveyors of this garbage.
There likely will be if we start having serious problems countrywide. People’s patients with the idiocy will run out.
If anything, it should give an easy opening for norms to call them out on their bullshit. For a few months, anyway.
I’m feeling especially cynical.
There will be no reckoning. None of the folks behind this panic will pay any price.
And Gell Mann amnesia will set in for climate change.
It is just more social signaling from the Hollywood crowd. Remember, if you have to tell people you are smart you are not. If you have to tell people you are funny….
Same goes for having to tell people you are a good person.
Listen, just turn Gal Gadot over to me, I know how to deal with her.
From each according to her abilities…
Dammit! I tried really hard to keep my lives separate online, but following a youtube link from here led to an ad from Millipore Sigma so I must have cross-contaminated.
Shit!
And now you’re diabetic!!
Ok fine.
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/video/life-science/visualize-your-crispr-experiment-with-mission-cas9-gfp-fusion-proteins.html
At least they haven’t figured out I’m not a genetic engineer yet. Although when they think you are, you get THE BEST evil villain junk mail.
*Reads article, wipes spicy pork rind dust on shirt* Wut?
I uploaded a phone pic of it here a long time ago, but one of my favorite pieces of junk mail was a flyer with a picture of a syringe going into a cerebrum with the words “Brain injections missing the mark? Hit the spot every time with NEUROS brand syringes by Hamiltion.”
That’s when I knew I was a for-real grown up scientist.
That sounds like you have become a candidate for a role in Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues
My mother just called me crying because she’s scared shitless about the virus, for herself and for my grandmother (mom is 64, grandma is 92). Trying to get her to calm down but it’s difficult.
This is probably the worst pandemic in 50 years, and might end up being the worst since the 1918 flu. But the hype is pretty unbelievable.
I am not buying the worst in 50 years and don’t think it will surpass H1N1 as far as hospitalizations or deaths and ya, as I said above, how this is being hyped and scaring the shit out of old people really pisses me off. My folks call me with concerns until I talk them down. I tell them if they need something I will go get it, or use grocery pickup, just lay low for awhile.
I will be utterly and completely shocked if it comes anywhere close to 50 million deaths (which is a midrange estimate of the 1918 Spanish flu). I guess anything is possible, but if I were a betting man, and I am, I’d bet it will be on the higher side of a bad flu year with all of the measures of social dismantlement that have happened.
Let alone those 50m deaths as a percentage of world population in 1918.
I said the worst since, not worse than. 1957 flu killed ~80k in the US. We may end up higher than that.
I’d be surprised if it matched 1957, even with our much higher population.
Its bizarre, my kids are calling, emailing, scared to death.
“I haven’t been outside for 13 days”
They pretend like they’re worried for me and like I have done since I chased the boogie man out from under their bed 50 years ago I have to reassure them that the world will be here tomorrow, in pretty much the same shape it was in yesterday, that its only the politicians and grifters who are sounding the alarm.
Follow the money.
Sorry man. Girlfriend’s grandmother is over 90 (has had multiple strokes, and falls) and there’s been questions as to if she’ll make it to any gathering. Both of my parents are over 70, but are actually sticking to the social distancing thing according to my sister (who lives less then a mile away from their new house, and still hasn’t been visited by them).
FWIW I’m in a more-or-less constant state of anxiety now. Until I start drinking at around 7pm every day and then it eases.
Whee.
My wife is pretty much there with you, and not because of the virus, but the reactions to it. I am not quite in a constant state of anxiety because I have been out and about working the past couple weeks, if I hadn’t been I would be absolutely stir crazy by now. I was working at a building a few days ago in which the manager is kind of a nutter on the best of days, but keeps it together mostly. He was in full blown panic the other day. I could hear him throwing shit around his apartment and screaming at himself. When I had finished the job and went back by his apartment he had thrown a bunch of shoes out into the middle of the hallway and was still babbling away to himself inside.
Turn off the fucking news and take a walk. I have family way too wrapped up in this shit too. They keep sending texts.
Also, something tells me that when this does pass, the US is going to start looking like Asia with everyone wearing masks all the time.
I decided on something lighter
I’m still trying to process, but just learned that my Dad’s cousin-in-law, died last fall. My mom said she had known but didn’t know until December.
Ilsa was a German war bride. Her Husband (my Dad’s cousin) was part of the Berlin airlift. He met Ilsa, who was 16, smuggled her to England, and married her. I’ve seen pictures of Chuck then; Errol Flynn eat your heart out. Wow, was he handsome, and she was gorgeous. They stayed married until Chuck passed away about 6 years ago. He’s the one who’s mother died of the flu and he and his siblings lived with my Dad’s family until his father remarried. He joined the army during the great depression because they promised him two meals a day. He ended up making a career of the air force, then the NOOA. They used to visit our family and I loved them both.
A cousin and I went to Chuck’s funeral. While we were there, Ilsa brought up her eventual funeral and we both promised we’d be there. I’m angry we weren’t told. I understand why her daughter didn’t tell us, but I really wanted to be there. My cousin is the one who told me and suggested we go when the virus carp is over to visit her grave (as well as additional relatives buried there) and go to the same German restaurant we went to for Chuck’s funeral. I said, “I’m in”.
As I said, I get why she didn’t tell us, but I’m still angry.
I would be furious. But WHY didn’t she tell you? Or am I not paying attention?
She just couldn’t deal and thought her brother had done it. He didn’t.
He’s not at all reliable. But, I understand being overwhelmed and taking someone’s word even if you know they’re unreliable. So, I’m really pissed at him. Asshole.
I’m sorry.
Does it seem that one side of the main political spectrum seems a little too unconcerned about whether businesses stay closed? One lefty friend of mine on FB just posted a meme congratulating Trump on signing the biggest socialist package ever. She’s a Bernie supporter, and not terribly bright.
I also noticed that people on the left tend to be more apt to comply with the whole quarantine thing. Maybe because they trust the govt. to give them the right advice?
One more thing – I don’t know if everyone is getting this, but there are a LOT of memes going around about Kentucky’s governor Bashear (sp? – who cares) being some kind of strongman/Daddy (yes, he’s even referred to as Daddy in a few of them) whose authoritative commands are keeping people safe. Even over and above the usual TDS, this is really pissing me the fuck off.
Sorry for this mini-rant. I miss going to restaurants and seeing my friends.
They’re lazy and don’t want to work.
I’m lazy, don’t want to work, but I’m a libertarian. Of, I still work, and work hard because I want to pay bills and retire some day and I don’t trust politicians.
They are also lazy, in that they don’t want to think for themselves, with what could potentially be on the line. Let strongmen make the decisions, and, if the leaders get it wrong, well, it’s not my fault…
People’s response to this thing just re-enforced my resolve to retire to the sticks.
Absolutely. I’m in a city now because I built a biz here and almost all my extended family that doesn’t live in Ireland live within 20 minutes. This shitshow is gonna speed up the purchase of said land.
That’s why even this part of PA isn’t suiting me for retirement.
Ditto.
Yesterday was our anniversary and we usually go out with friends for a restaurant meal. We had grand kids staying with us so it would have been a double special event.
Just saw Navarro is going to head up the War Regime and force GM into making respirators. He’s gonna make them hit his production schedules, I betcha.
GM and Ventec signed-up for that duty and were happy to take the kudos. Did I believe a company like GM could turn on that quickly – no f’ing way. Then shut-up and don’t write checks your body can’t cash.
There are a lot of my Republican friends busily praising the stay home orders and spouting platitudes about saving lives. I have to say I was drifting back toward the constitutional republican side of the spectrum before this happened because I was getting tired of the libertarian motif of denouncing any incremental gain as not sufficiently pure. The Trump/Republican response to this disease is pushing me off to my own little corner of hating everyone.
“hating everyone”
This is always a good default position (except for Glibs of course).
Pffft. I hate everyone, me most of all!
(Not really, but it sounded good when I first typed it out…)
my own little corner of hating everyone
I was “social distancing” before it was
mandatedcool.Exactly, Trump saying don’t panic (vilified), not requesting enough funding, and trying get the country open ASAP (vilified) outrages me to no end. No better than those damn liberals.
Oh, wow you are so right. I mistook him and team R for the people bribing us all with $1200 while they hand out $2 Trillion in pork, and vilify Massie for the crime of trying to make them go on the record as voting for the $2 Trillion in loot. But I was mistaken, he has been wonderful in this crisis. I’v said before I am a lesser of two evils guy, but that gets strained when the lesser is as bad as this.
I’m wearing a mask when I got out, washing my hands regulary (using sanitizer), staying away from my elderly in laws, staying inside when possible etc. Not because of what the government is demanding, but despite what it is demanding. Eventually, the tipping point will come where it will be worth more to disobey the government even if it means exposing others to the virus. When you don’t respect property rights, you will always have this kind of dilemma in a crisis.
Some guntuber I’ve never heard of decided to get some atteniton/views by picking a fight with Paul Harrell. I’ll link to the very end of his response.
https://youtu.be/GPw3oz9psnc?t=3832
I watched the whole video the day it was released.
240K views in 2 days. Wow.
Anyone talking trash about Harrell IS trash.
anyone got any funny headline ideas?
ISIS Sad That People More Scared of Virus
China To Trap Virus With Special Trap
Biden Picks Howard Dean as Running Mate
AOC Denounces Violins on Television
Heavy smoker coughs in grocery store and is killed by another shopper who threw a can of peas at his head
Close enough I guess?
On the Maine island of Vinalhaven, an armed group allegedly told individuals to quarantine Friday amid the global coronavirus pandemic and even cut down a tree to block the driveway to their property, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
Around 3:35 p.m., an individual used a VHF radio system to contact the Coast Guard for help at the residence in the area of Cripple Creek Road, authorities said.
“The individual reported that several people with guns had cut down a tree and were telling them that they need to stay quarantined,” the sheriff’s office said on Facebook.
You can’t even satire the real world anymore. That is insane.
Wait…where?
I like that song.
I like The Band.
I think my favorite is the fourth, even though it references a classic joke. The second is funny but requires some thought. Millennial don’t know who Howard Dean is. I don’t know if ISIS works with topical humor anymore, and in any case they were in the news telling theirgoons to avoid catching THD, so they’re shitting their Bedoin robes as much as anyone else.
BTW, what is the term for someone who wears a keffiyeh? STEVE SMITH has taken to the look.
Same. Biden’s running mate is going to be funny regardless of who he chooses.
That is GRAND MUFTI STEVE SMITH to you, kaffir.
Morning, Swiss. Did you see the Japanese politician press conference in the morning lynx?
Shaykh (vowel sounds like Fonzi ay, not chic) means old man in Arabic. They usually wear keffiyehs/shemaghs. The Arabic term for the US Senate is Majlis Ash-Shayukh- the council of old men. Khatyar also means old man or elderly.
Mosque comes from masjid. In Egyptian Arabic, it got garbled into masgid, similar to the way the word for camel, jamal, got garbled into gamal. Sujud is the act of bowing down in prayer. Sajadah is a prayer rug. Saajid and Sajaad are both names which mean someone who prays all the time.
So there’s no equivalent of hijabi? Or is than an English invention?
Hijab comes from the verb hajaba, meaning to conceal. The related word hawajib means eyelashes.
An old-fashioned word for a woman is hurmah, which comes from haram, meaning forbidden. The word harem comes from the same root.
It’s like jihadi- that’s English. The Arabic term is mujahid.
what is the term for someone who wears a keffiyeh?
“douchebag”
fun fact: kofia means hat in Swahili. I’m pretty sure it’s derived from keffiyeh.
The word turban comes from the Farsi (Persian) word dulband. The Turks garbled it into tulbent. The French garbled that into turban.
Star-Studded Ad Campaign Launched for New Chinese-Made PPCoke
“I’ll never drink Diet Coke – or should I say “TrumpCoke” – again,” says Alyssa Milano. “This is much better – and that’s no joke!”
Me Chinese, me play joke?
The weird part is, only an adult could write something like that.
Yeah, I was struggling with a pithy headline. I’m just imagining a bunch of #resistance types ditching Diet Coke because Trump likes it and instead drinking Coke with pee in it, and they’re all smiling and saying it tastes great because it would be racist to say otherwise.
It’s kinda tough to top the actual Chinese cure.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-promotes-bear-bile-as-coronavirus-cure
Thanks for all the responses to my venting earlier. Shared misery is, indeed, lessened. Also, to Baked Penguin, my cousin’s favorite was this Kingmaker
Demand for essential goods skyrockets:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/28/marijuana-sales-up-50-in-new-york-city-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-dealer-says/
Thankfully the dispensaries here are considered essential and are staying open. Which is good, because I need more.
I think medical MJ is still open for business here. Since it is not yet legal for recreational use, I’m sure the black market will operate as efficiently as always. I’d be more concerned if the state took over.
Glad your supply is still online.
The corner market across the street cannot keep the shelves stocked with booze fast enough.
Wow 345 comments, and I’m done with BBQ,…………….
F-35 Zoomer
One of Svengoolie’s characters is doing plague PSA’s.
LOL
Seeing more masks and more empty shelf space. Starting to worry this litany of irritations and mild inconveniences may go on indefinitely.
It will only go on as long as people with guns are making it go on.
*Starts doing curls*
*releases slide on pistol*
Wait, am I doing it wrong?
Is there a Glibfits post tomorrow? Cause I’m actually doing well.
I am not. WFH is way too easy to snack. Plus WFH leads to boredom which leads to snacking. And of course, if I felt any stress, I’d be stress eating too but I’m sure that’s not happening.
I should do some of the bodyweight exercises Chafed linked earlier throughout the day.
Suppose I could step in for NotAdahn or Chafed. Not sure if you want to see how I got these washboard abs.
You bought a washboard and a nail gun?
1986 Porsche 944 Turbo Vs Mitsubishi Starion ESI-R, Mazda RX-7 Turbo, And Nissan 300ZX Turbo
A friend had a Station turbo. Lots of fun when that turbo spoolled up.
Love it.
Logged time in all four. As an owner of the Gen1 RX-7, I never really liked the Gen 2, but they were still pretty sweet.
What’s funny is that the Civic blows them all out of the water today!
I’ve owned the Mitsubishi and the Mazda and enjoyed them both. The Porsche is a pig of a car. It had decent handling, but that cast iron engine was gutless.
There was a time.
..back in my prime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldQrapQ4d0Y
…back in my Prine
My favorite John Prine song: Dear Abby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5js4ITJPXY&list=RDZogciFl-udY&index=30
I knew I liked you in spite your mostly wrong opinions and being from the worst state in the union
We were sittin’ in the back seat just shootin; the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed Just Married
Damn good song, but not his best. Here’s a better one.
Have you heard this recent one?
I still contend that “There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes” may be the single best lyrical line in modern musical history.
(Yeah, I’m a sucker for poignant songs.)
You might be right, GT.
Second favorite John Prine song: Spanish Pipedream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSGLOLsuTo
Blow up your TeeVee,
throw away your paper
Go to the country,
build you a home
Plant a little garden,
eat a lot of peaches
Try an find jesus on your own
Most bland possibly, hard to see how N.. Dak could be the worst.
Thanks…?
LOL, yeah sorry. If it makes you feel better I live in Ohio which comes in 25-26 in virtually every ranking category you can think of. We are as average as average gets averaged.
But we’re the BEST at being average!
Says the guy from the burgeoning communist utopia on the lake.
I know…{hangs head}
Third favorite John Prine song: In Spite of Ourselves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YzlbgEOOA
He ain’t got laid in a month of Sundays
Caught him once and he was sniffin’ my undies
He ain’t too sharp but he gets things done
Drinks his beer like it’s oxygen
He’s my baby, I’m his honey
I’m never gonna let him go
In spite of ourselves we’ll end up a-sittin’ on a rainbow
Against all odds, honey we’re the big door-prize
We’re gonna spite our noses right off of our faces
There won’t be nothin’ but big ol’ hearts dancin’ in our eyes
I don’t like Iris Dement’s voice otherwise this song would be near the top of the list.
I am starting to get seriously freaked out about Walmart closing at 8:30. d00d, I NEED to be able to go to the store at 1:38 a.m. on the dot. I feel like a junkie without heroin OR methadone.
I am perfectly content to spend entire weeks in my house without going anywhere. Now that I have been ordered to do it I am getting stir crazy.
please rise and rack your shotgun for the quarantine anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun9jZTqaqg
I was far snarkier than appropriate above – I apologize. The entire situation is stressful, but no excuse.
S’ok, I snarked back and consider it fully balanced. I’m just going slowly insane watching people scurrry around praising every tyrannical order.
Exactly Jarflax.
I feel unsafe without SOMETHING open 24 hours besides QuikTrip.
Oh wait. CVS is open. *whew*
The year my mom spent Christmas in the hospital, I wound up doing the bulk of my gift shopping in the wee hours at the 24-hour Walgreen’s right across the street. Chia pets for everybody!
LOL one year Mom bought everyone The Clapper.
“Now that I have been ordered to do it I am getting stir crazy.”
I know. I’d always been religious about wearing a seat belt. Hell, I’m old enough that I had to intall the things on y first few cars.
When MA passed their seatbelt law I stopped wearing one around town. Stupid,but it really irked me that I was being forced to do it.
They do blue light specials still?
Ackshually, I’m pretty sure that was K-Mart.
Hehe. Still never been to a Walmart. Sounds wonderful, though.
Your Kmart fix.
MORE BEER!
MORE BEER!
Nice video. How do you get to that exact point where you can still kind of walk, but aren’t aware enough to find a place to sleep it off? And still buying more beer after you’re plastered… I honestly don’t get it. My daughter claims that she’s never seen me drunk. Guess I hold it better than others.
Same. A monster tolerance is definitely a blessing/curse.
But yeah, a fun video.
Several liters of bock bier and little food.
Ha! Been there!
Gravity just kicked his ass.
I love that video. Holy crap that dude is plastered.
Are fabric stores considered essential? Because I have a cheap couch (I bought it at Big Lots so it’s cheap in every sense) to replace a beautiful, but incredibly uncomfortable couch I bought off Wayfair, and I need Velcro to keep the cushions in place. It’s turning into the dog eating couch. Velcro could give me another year or two.
Home Depot is open. Plenty of velcro.
Some Walmarts seem to have well-stocked fabric/notions departments, so you might be able to find some there – or possibly at a hardware store, if they carry some that isn’t too “heavy duty” for your purposes.
Walmart closes at 8:30 p.m.
Well, if she doesn’t absolutely have to have it tonight… ; )
(I’ll just go ahead and leave this here for myself:)
^(^
(*)
Thanks for the Wal-Mart suggestion
tv pitch-
6 feisty young New Yorkers who wake up one day to find that they’ve been transformed into giant cockroaches
♫ Never told us it was gonna be this way…[clapclapclap] turnin’ into a giant cockroach! Is life fundamentally absurd?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7IibZ8DCZs
The Metamorphosis?
I just sat down and scrolled through…..either I’m drunk (SLD- no church tomorrow), or ya’all be cray
Let’s go with drunk….
Short Cans!
Obviously it’s both.
*wipes spicy pork rind dust on shirt* Wut?
Next big thing, Casey has a Huge space, I have huge Electronics and lights, My Daughters friends are bored, Virus Rave!
next Saturday, private, word of mouth old school,
/DEFIANCE!
+ speakeasy
HEY YUFUS!
Casey is half plus Seven to my Daughters friends, I get to run a show, and he gets to hunt….
and it’s good for all the kids I know, we party….
So I got a brisket at discount, and since Im doing it in the oven ( I dont have a smoker, you snots), I need a solid rub recipe. Help a brotha out.
Lotion?
Oh, gawd…LOL!
Go to amazingribs.com and make what they tell you.
Salt, pepper, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, dry mustard, thyme, cayenne, ground celery seed, ground bay leaf.
What Tundra said, those guys have good recipes. Also, I read a recipe about a smoked pork butt in the oven. If I remember correctly said tent the thing on a rack over a sheet pan of water and liquid smoke for however. For a brisket you want 190 and get there slowly oven about 250- 270? Take out, wrap in foil and put it in a cooler for a few hours and let it rest. Then put it back in a hot oven and crust it up. Maybe, never done a brisket in an oven.
If I remember right, Aaron Franklin just uses course salt and course pepper. I usually follow this. I don’t have a smoker either, but use my charcoal barrel grill to add smoke for a few hours before finishing overnight in the oven.
Shortages be coming, so I’ll ask: What can you use as a substitute for say, wet wipes or coffee filters? Basically, I just go without shit if I don’t/can’t get it unless it’s absolutely necessary. Is there a substitute for stoicism?
Get a reusable coffee filter. Or a Moka pot.
Alcohol is the substitute for stoicism.
Order the 5L Kakubin from Amazon and pump dispenser.
Sanitizing or just general cleanup for the wipes?
What’s your coffee making setup? In days gone by, we’d use paper towels in a pinch. Cheesecloth or clean T-shirt material would also work.
Hand poured into filter. One of those plastic things that holds the filter and sits on a coffee cup. Used to use fancy coffee makers, but kind of gave up over the years.
Do the same, except it’s a ceramic filter holder. Buy a large box of filters or use clean tight knit cloth (not washed with fabric softener or dryer sheets). I would think any run on coffee filters would be temporary, unlike sanitizing stuff or masks.
Here you go
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B06WRS9737/
Cool. Check it after after my noon conference call.
Not filters, just an alternative for your coffee shop. 😉
Get a coffee press and never buy another filter again.
Or stop drinking coffee.
I’ll do that the day you give up boobies.
Lol
Compromise proposal, mocha colored boobies?
http://archive.li/PiadD/63dc2a389eee589a96e757412f481610635a5f08.jpg
NSFW.
Hello nurse.
Bandana
http://archive.li/gT6jQ/03a3266033de08da0b8cf140abcd688fe6c419e0.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/aD8fG/7f342867b2e15e77e79d2943551919ca83ced674.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/jh9pA/e2640d838022885dc4ee055fb9c14a1032143468.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/0EI0J/625d6adb94b308826acb47319cce510005459088.jpg
NSFW.
All of them.
Best by far.
Nom nom
Even more beer.
I got to thinking about the hot redhead that works at their taproom. i should know better.
Got the turntable back in action with a new cart that sounds incredible. Hold on to Freedom rocking right now. Love me some Lee Michaels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0vvvr3AFOk
I’ll stick with DeadMau5 right now thanks…
I clicked your link and then perused Q’s above. Works as a great soundtrack for naked women.
Now it’s time for mismatched songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-4IXcKkK1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Wtoc5Lhpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrHwZyFN7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPfU1liY5DQ
https://invidio.us/watch?v=vFSHLjeYqrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fu5RjXrnGk
4 Swiss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNFtQJCqcpU
The rest of you can mute it.
Her eyes are slightly crazy.
ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present something more coherent than Joe Biden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8shzPq9-1f0
Biden really has passed the pint of no return. Vice President might have to invoke emergency powers.
Feature, not bug?
That is a statement that could apply to anything short of a Jackson Pollack.
Expert linguist attempts to decipher Bidenese, artist’s depiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6uZp-33qcY
Getting slammed with big, globby, wet snow today. Or is that corona flakes?
Corona Flakes? They’re Grrrrrrrrreat!
You know who else got slammed with big, globby, wet things?
Donald Pleasance?
speakers popping air into your face, as the river ebbs and flows, shots are good, and dogs are pissed, don’t touch, this is bad, still looking for the one that got away…
Defiance on the down low, seems like a good idea, but enemies, yet, what to do…….
Alright all, if any of you drunkards (or abstainers) want to hang out, I’ve got a Zoom account now.
Here. Chat, play games, drink what have you.
Fuck. that. noise.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/harry-meghan-to-ask-president-21773373
Tax money to protect those two? No fucking way.
Aren’t they Trudeau’s problem?
Wait, I asked that wrong.
Why aren’t they Trudeau’s problem?
The whole Canada thing was a ruse. She wants him in LA so they can be near reality show central and then go before a California divorce court in a couple years
She’s halfway between Mary Antoinette and Sharon Tate. She’s nothing but class condescension and aristocratic entitlement. You’re playing with fire dabbling in progressive politics, lady. They’ll have you up on the gallows and you’ll be crying about how you jetted around the world sobbing their stories.
At least Harry is a grandson of the Queen of Canada. And yet Canada refused to pay for his bodyguards. Fuck no should we pay for his protection.
Oh,HELL NAH.
Seriously—international protected person—does such a “rank” exist, and can anyone name a few for comparison?
The only thing I can find is a Red Cross/UN thing relating to combat zones.
Harry cannot live in the US without armed protection.
There’s his answer then. He can provide for his own armed protection.
Or get his own gun like his fellow Englishmen… ahhhh ha ha ha!
I am hungry. Time for a Tri tip french dip with Gruyere and a movie. Ya, I bought a french baguette for french dips. I have no spine. Be safe kids and wash your hands.
Now that’s a sandwich. Enjoy.
I have a dream of making a grilled cheese sandwich with Raclette. Raclette tastes good with sriracha.
Side note- the nutrition facts for sriracha say no sugar, but sugar is listed in the ingredients. Must be less than a gram of sugar per serving.
You can’t go wrong with Raclette
I hoped Buttigieg would stay in the race longer. Because Snagglepuss!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4k9nz9NELM
WHO official blows off Taiwanese interviewer over question about Taiwan’s response to the CCP virus:
https://mobile.twitter.com/gracejackson/status/1243893976324849664
I’m not sure what came before this in the interview but this is pathetic.
I shouldn’t but I am
autotune Biden song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5HCi-zsYE
off yourself the fun way!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster
***
The Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.[1] In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria”.[2] As for practical applications of his design, Urbonas mentioned “euthanasia” or “execution”.[3] John Allen, who served as president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the “ultimate” roller coaster as one that “sends out 24 people and they all come back dead”.[4]
***
On the downside, you don’t get to buy a picture of yourself when you get off.
Damn it,! miss my Wendy Time,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk&list=RDMMX4bgXH3sJ2Q&index=7
she cries,
Damn, Yusef. If listening to that sad stuff helps, go for it. Have a chat if you want.
I just want to take a nail clipper to that mole.
and a good comeback, i feel like Til….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIPc1cfS-oQ&list=RDMMX4bgXH3sJ2Q&index=8
Naomi Watanabe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyzDvZl_0xg
Not her best work. This is.
https://youtu.be/xAZPX2NapII?t=116
what libertarians think they’re doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk
what libertarians are actually doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xaStuzYnAc